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July 4, 2008

G89: Red Sox 6, Yankees 4

Mike Lowell's three-run home run in the fifth broke a 3-3 tie and carried the Red Sox through a 88-minute rain delay and a win in the second game of the MFY series. The first trio of Boston runs scored in the third on Lowell's sac fly and Kevin Youkilis's triple.

You must see highlights of Yook's triple (here). It was hit to deep left and Johnny Damon raced back. He leapt at the wall, had the ball hit in and then pop out of his glove. As Damon fell to the warning track, the ball bounced a couple of times on the top of the outfield fence, and stayed balanced on top before falling and rolling several feet away from Damon. Game pictures here (and here), including this one:

The bullpen snuffed out two rallies. In the seventh, Hideki Ojakima left the bases loaded with two outs for Manny Delcarmen, who got Alex Rodriguez to hit into a force play. Then, in the eighth, after MDC walked Jason Giambi and retired Jorge Posada on a fly out, Javier Lopez came in and ended the inning with one pitch -- a double play grounder from (Whatta ya know!) Robbie Cano.

Beckett (6-4-3-2-4, 102) had a rough first inning -- two doubles and a walk among the first four batters -- but settled down, retiring the side in the second and third on 20 total pitches. A fantastic running-and-sliding catch into foul territory from Jacoby Ellsbury saved Beckett's bacon in the fourth, when he left the bases loaded.

In the two games of the series, New York is 2-for-24 with runners on base. It should be 1-for-23, but Derek Jeter was credited with a double although his fly ball to left-center was clearly caught by Coco Crisp. That should have ended the game, but it brought Bobby Abreu to the plate as the potential tying run.

Abreu flew to deep center (truping however many Yankee fans remained) to end the game (again). Give Jonathan Papelbon an asterik for a one-inning, five-out save. He had struck out Brett Gardner -- the batter before Jeter -- for what should have been the third out, but Gardner was awarded a walk instead.

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Rain delay (tarp out at 4:20) in the top of the 8th!Lugo on first and none out against Farnsworth.

Jordan created just about all of the good players of today. Basketball is a much different game now because of Jordan. Sure there were greats earlier. But nobody could be credited with changing the NBA like Jordan. Marketing and fans and style of play. These guys today grew up worshiping and copying and perfecting the Jordan game.

Everyone says Ruth, Jordan and Gretzky. I'd love to read something on it by someone who understood all three sports on a deep level. My knowledge of Jordan and Gretzky is too superficial to know if it's true.

And may I add Lou Gehrig is a hugely under-rated player? His accomplishments are insane. His career was always overshadowed by Ruth's, and now he's remembered for his disease and his speech. A damn shame.

Past lugo goes the ball. Wow. Lugo actually gets angry when he gets out still. I would think he would be happy that he is hitting at his average. Tek would love to hit at his average. Lugo don't be selfish.

Because my satire goes over like a barrel over the falls i will say it straight out.

America is fucked with the impoverished pushed into military service because it is the only job they can get with just a HS diploma. Sure they will pay for college which is the big success push that this society puts on you. You do get college paid for after you go over and get blown up in a bullshit war. The people pushed into the military pre-911 were told that we haven't been in a war for a long time and probably won't be again because of the democrats. I was told this by a recruiter one time.they came after me not the other way around.

There is some fraud in the military recruiting process. So i agree that some of these soldiers who are not actively in the war zone should be able to go to canada. If you are in the zone then you cannot desert. stateside desert they can and will replace you with people from the ghetto.

I love showing the flash to people. A bottle of skyy is blue. when you pour it into a glass in a well lit room the light goes though the bottom of the bottle and is projected through the vodka pouring out of the bottle in an awesome blue light. It looks electric. If you can get sunlight to be your light source it is orgasmic.

A bottle of skyy is blue. when you pour it into a glass in a well lit room the light goes though the bottom of the bottle and is projected through the vodka pouring out of the bottle in an awesome blue light. It looks electric. If you can get sunlight to be your light source it is orgasmic.

Being a close follower of two sports that can be called distant cousins, baseball and cricket, I can tell you that Ruth standouts as unique in how he revolutionized the game.Cricket had one too, , Don Bradman , an Aussie whose career was shortened by the WWII

Don't get me wrong completely though. I think war can be a good thing for the winner if you go in there to win. If you go in there to use the military like a political nation building force you are asking for failure. We don't like military leaders making decisions over here how can we really like the decisions they will make over there?Dear, Military go over there and blow the fuck out of them then come home and let the politics take over.

OK, I back tracked through the thread and see the news---sounds great, Laura. I will have to read the details on wmtc about the case since I don't know anything aout it. But if the court is giving a rehearing, that sure sounds like great news!

Amalie Benjamin:It seems to have stopped raining here in the Bronx, and the grounds crew is taking the tarp off the field at the moment. I think we're all hopeful that the rain will hold off long enough to get the final two innings of this game in.

The crowd is certainly sparse at this time, with an hour rain delay inserted into an already-lengthy game.